TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! ORDINANCE UNDER DISCUSSION THIS WEEK: KANSAS CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERING RAISING MINIMUM WAGE AS HIGH $15!!!
The last session of the City Council before the Primary should be interesting.
It seems that the topic of a FAIR WAGE for Kansas City biz is now something more than just rhetoric and now an ordinance soon to be under discussion.
Introduced by Council Dude Reed, they'll be talking this ordinance on April Fool's Day . . .
Don't take our word for it . . . Here's the language of effort that could be on it's way to becoming Kansas City law by the end of the week:
Ordinance: #150217
Enacting a new Article XII entitled Living Wage, of Chapter 50, Code of Ordinances, to establish a living wage within the City of Kansas City, Missouri; to specify employers subject to the living wage; to make findings as to the necessity of a living wage; to establish a prohibition on retaliation for reporting; to establish violations of the living wage ordinance; to provide for remedies and penalties; to provide the process to be employed upon complaints of violation; to establish severability of provisions; and provide an effective date.
Now . . .
CHECK THE KANSAS CITY FAIR WAGE PLAN THAT STARTS @ 10 BUCKS AN HOUR AND INCREASES TO $15 AN HOUR OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS!!!
"The living wage paid to an employee not excluded as set forth above, shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per hour, effective September 1, 2015. Beginning September 1, 2017, the living wage shall be increased by $1.25 each year thereafter for the next four years. The City of Kansas City, Missouri shall post the living wage established by this Ordinance on its website after this Ordinance becomes effective and at least ninety (90 days prior to each adjustment of the living wage."
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Realistically, this shouldn't have much of a chance and Kansas City small biz owners will rebel or simply leave if this ever becomes a reality. Then again, there are a great many exceptions that could alleviate complaints and there's no telling what kind of crazy stuff our local politicos will do before an election.
Developing . . .
So I guess KCMO is finally admitting defeat in the border war?
ReplyDeleteRather than simply raising the minimum wage we should train people to do useful things like retro-fitting Kemper to be the Greenest Building in America complete with urban gardening on the roof. Kansas City needs to get out of its rut and think big. We need leaders like Katheryn Shields on City Council to take on those big projects like she did as our County Executive at Fort Osage. With leadership we can do so much better in Kansas City, we just need to allow ourselves to be great!
ReplyDeleteYeah no way this flys. Seattle is doing it, let's let them try it and get fucked up before we try it.
ReplyDeleteI say we bump the minimum wage to $50. Sure, you say that there won't be any jobs out there. I get that. But those luck few that have jobs will be doing great. Oh, wait, that's sort of what we have today.
ReplyDeleteKatheryn and Phil: the Fort Osage example is not a strong point for you to talk about.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't provide $15 worth of value, plus benefits, you are really fucked.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to increase disposable income how about reducing taxes ass hats?
ReplyDeleteIf this passes, the few people who have not lost their low level jobs will make more money.
ReplyDeletethis will NOT work. 1st it will cause less jobs because businesses can not afford to pay these wages. The products will have to increase to pay the wages. It is a no win situation. The best thing for folks is to go to school so they can get a better job. There are a lot of programs to help with that.
ReplyDeleteA lot of PhD's in economics reading this blog, who would've thought it?
ReplyDeleteWhile we're rather sure that this proposal is merely pandering by Councilman Reed prior to voting, it nonetheless is representative of the overwhelmingly defective mental reasoning coming from so-called political leadership in KCMO.
ReplyDeleteNot content to already be saddled with the monstrosity known as the 1-percent earnings tax, KC leaders and wannabe-leaders have publicly advocated for a 15.00/hour minimum "living wage" which if implemented, would have serious negative implications for the city's businesses.
Are these people short-sighted opportunists? Meddling mental malcontents? Pandering purveyors of putrid politics? Yes, yes, and yes!
Sorry Jermaine I still will NOT be voting for you. Too little too late.
ReplyDeleteHey Mister Future Man – I was promised flying cars and rocket packs. WHERE IS MY ROCKET PACK?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of moving my business over to Kansas side. If this were to pass I would definitely relocate.
ReplyDeleteIf this passes, we lose all business to Kansas.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Sly and Jermaine!
I'm in support of a minimum wage increase though not at $15, but I do find Reed's timing to be incredibly convenient. People constantly call BS on his "East side" accomplishments of an Aldi's and a police station. It looks like he is trying to find something tangible to finally run on. I hope everyone sees through his act votes him out.
ReplyDeleteIt seems a little late to be taking a lesson from the command economy of the Soviet Union, but Reed doesn't really strike anyone as either an economist or an historian.
ReplyDeleteMostly a panderer who's just come from the latest Urban Summit demand meeting.
And if you really want to give this ordinance the balance it requires, they should accompany it with an ordinance making selling any fast food hamburgers for less than $8.00 against the law in KCMO.
When are the mandates for world peace and global warming coming from these clowns?
How many $15 an hour employees could a business hire if they cut the millions paid to CEOs and boards?
ReplyDeleteSly is the same mayor that told everyone to stay home on a day that had about 4" of new snow.
ReplyDeleteThat used to be a call the owners of KCMo companies would make.
We need to stop thinking of minimum wage jobs as anything more than a stepping stone, an introduction to the workplace. If you think of it as a career you will always get fucked in the end. It should be where you start so you can make something better of yourself. I did it, I hated it and I learned from it.
ReplyDelete10:53, of course it depends on the size of the organization, but in general not many. A few million split several hundred thousand ways does not go very far. But then, your real aim is to get back at CEOs and not to help workers, right?
ReplyDeleteLast minute pandering by a Councilman who did very little for the community for four years. We see through you travelin man.
ReplyDeleteThe ass hats already reduced taxes 9:12, on the rich, but for some reason they are not buying a bunch of stuff which creates jobs, already have everything they need so they just dump all the extra money into more investments. Demand for products creates jobs, not tax cuts, not the rich, and not business owners.
ReplyDeleteIf you really want to get back at a CEO chop off his head
ReplyDelete2:12. When you talk about "the rich" not buying stuff, are you bitching about those bastard millionaire CEO's or those loving and caring millionaire professional athletes and millionaire Hollywood actors?
ReplyDeleteAll of them 12:29, but if you think putting more money in their hands is going to create new demands for material items you are wrong, cut taxes on a poor person and they will spend every extra penny they have on consumer goods, which in turn creates jobs for those who produce, ship and sell those goods, not a complicated theory.
ReplyDeleteIf a small business can't pay a living wage, then it adds no value to the community.
ReplyDeleteIts really about class. You can't ask the middle class for permission to no longer be poor, because they are afraid that if you get some, it will come from them. The American Dream died.
If your over college age and still working minimum wage it's for a few reasons.
ReplyDelete1. You waisted every chance this country has to offer to better yourself.
2. Your a moronic fool.
Simple as that.
You suck at life so now you want the government to better yourself in stead of you doing it for yourself.
Back in the day we used to call guys in their 30's or above losers. Now they want the government to make them into something their not.
12:46, your term "living wage" has no objective meaning. But regardless of that, your point is nonsense. A business that sells products or services creates value. If that business could not pay its employee a "living wage" and survive, the value of that business would disappear, to the detriment of the economy and to the employee, who is suddenly making zilch.
ReplyDeleteWell the good news is that KC will not be seeing any growth in the retail, fast food or services sector at $15.00 an hour for unskilled help. The bad news is those three business classifications account for the huge majority of sales and earnings tax revenue. Go for it KC. Lets see how your experiment in trying to run businesses from the city palace arm chair works out.
ReplyDeleteIt is ALRADY KILLING JOBS AND BUSINESS IN SEATTLE.
ReplyDeleteIt's a killer for low income folks and makes things worse.
More idiotic, Progressive, Liberal Federal over reach.
I'm gonna quit my job as a city labor worker patching potholes and clearing snow and take a pay increase to flip burgers at McDonalds.
ReplyDeleteI own several acres of property on the west side of State Line Road...Soon I should have all of the fast food joints and gas stations and liquor stores as my tenants. The white line will be state line not Troost.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sly and Jermaine you're the best!
2:34, "waisted every chance" and you call someone a moronic fool, rich in irony right there.
ReplyDeleteevery suburb surrounding KC is loving this idea. Businesses will just go a mile or 2 in any direction and reopen..Meanwhile jobs will be lost, and those getting 15 an hour can expect to lose all of their assistance and free shit from the taxpayer. That virtually free Obamacare will go up food stamps will go away, and quality of life will decline.. Those who lose their jobs will still get their free shit, minus any of the extra income they were getting for fucking up orders at the drive thru. Once again govt will prove that they can fuck shit up . Those this bill claims to help will be the biggest losers. As usual liberal help is anything but helpful.
ReplyDelete4:11 you do realize city workers would get a raise too. you obviously are a city worker.
ReplyDeleteJust keep in mind that well over 80% of of the metro population DOESN'T LIVE IN KCMO.
ReplyDeleteThe Star and the KCMO council may think that KCMO is the center of the metro and that downtown is the center of the universe, but there's an awfully lot of ground for all the businesses to bail out to.
This is an amazingly stupid idea and it's not a surprise where it came from.
Make demands that you get what you want.
How about 70 degree weather all year round?
12:39 thank you for the pico-economics lesson.
ReplyDeleteAll the assclown libtards keep saying its not a living wage.. NO SHIT! It's not supposed to be.
It's a slave wage, just be glad we don't beat them and lock them in the kitchen like Jerusalem Cafe and Jazz Kitchen
ReplyDeletePull yourself up by some broken bootstraps
ReplyDeleteHey Byron ya Loser;
ReplyDeleteAnyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!! MuthaF#%!@€*rs...we was playun wich y'all....!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBitc#@)%es thought we was fur ree-eel....$Fit-teen dollahs!! Bwaaahaahahaa!!
Byron, I like your profile picture of you and your mommy. You know she loved Mark more than you.
ReplyDeleteIt is up to the state government to raise minimum wage. Like everything else in KCMo. Government, it's "all hat and no cattle".
ReplyDeleteYes that's right, City employees low end wages should be raised. But since the city government is always claiming dept. budget problems we will simply have even less people working for city hall. Or it is another ruse to say a raise is coming, oops, salary freeze.
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